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Anchor’s Complete Guide to Hero Grades

The purpose of this guide is to make it so you don’t waste very expensive resources, gems, time and most importantly money. Had I known this guide existed I would have been able to make better decisions with heroes. While my story isn’t as bad as other horror stories I have heard, I think it is a long overdue assessment of which heroes to level.

By applying this grading scale you’ll be able to know within a quick glance and answer the question “What hero should I level up next?” by yourself. Some you will see some 4*’s are easily obtained and used at the top levels. This is not just a mathematical algorithm of what you “should” do based on stats. It was created by some of the best players of Empires and Puzzles who have personally used these heroes to stay atop the leaderboard.

For the sake of catering towards top level players, this is going to be grading only 5* and 4* heroes. Another guide could be made for 3* heroes given the fact that the beginner event features only 3* heroes. As Alliance Wars approaches, there will probably be modifications done in the future to keep everything updated. A separate section might be added to accommodate this as new information comes to light and strategies are made.

I am an advocate of keeping 4* and 5* heroes, Unless they are awful 4* heroes (ill outline those for you with D grades). Reason being is that Empires and Puzzles is constantly working towards making improvements and making heroes better or scaled back. There’s been times that I have seen heroes get massive buffs and playable after I have just got rid of them.

Just for the sake of this it is worth it to keep just about all heroes that are 4*s or 5*s. With Alliance Wars on the horizon, these heroes are becoming more important given the fact that you can only use one hero per match (currently)

I would build your heroes to fit all phases of the game. Some people may be fine with leveling a hero because they make an incredible tank, but might not be the best titan hitter. For me, finding the most diversified heroes is the most beneficial decision that you can make.

I could not have made this without the help of ScndStar (Who organized and built the whole spreadsheet), Zero, Arien, and Borasaurous (Provided much needed content for specific heroes) and all the input of the Seven Days community.

155 thoughts on “Anchor’s Complete Guide to Hero Grades”

Couple of questions:
– how is Melendor’s tile damage better than both Lil John and SkittleSkull when Melendor’s attack rating is lower than LJ’s and SS’s?
– Would a 4* A actually be better or worse than a 5* B? Realizing that is a tough question, just posing it to the experts!

@anchor, this guide is very helpful. I don’t take it literally as I think the grading is more based on what stage of the game or (cup lvl) you’re at. For example boril and cyprian would be much higher grades along with chao for lower lvl but I can see where their use would be outdated at higher levels.

One request is to freeze the name and top header row (different stats) even for google sheets, this is possible so that the guide is easier to view.